Powerful energy complexes are used to service industrial, agricultural and construction businesses. Almost 80% of all the energy produced in the country is consumed by businesses. It is the costs of heating and electricity that become one of the main expenditure items.
<1_img_centerxx>They can be reduced by introducing energy saving technologies into the business. They involve the improvement of equipment, as well as the use of high precision instrumentation. The instrumentation is always chosen taking into account the specificities of the industrial installation. So, for companies in the heat and power and petroleum industries, devices with an increased degree of protection against external influences are used.
Popular ways to save money: main directions
The main technological activities include:
- Replacing equipment with energy efficient ones, ranging from lamps to heat exchangers and variable frequency motors.
- Increased productivity in the power generation process: for example, installation of condensing equipment.
- Launch of projects on "ecological" alternative energies (sun, water, wind).
- Monitoring of resources consumed and launch of control systems.
Research carried out and statistical data collected assert that 90% of energy loss is precisely associated with irrational consumption, but only up to 10% is lost in the process of transport and transmission. Therefore, the main directions of energy saving technologies are precisely associated with optimizing the use of heat and electricity. All of these activities have their own payback period: specialists can easily calculate the economic feasibility of implementing certain processes or purchasing new equipment.
Technical activities
It is the technical measures implemented that effectively reduce the amount of energy consumed, both hot and electric. They are expensive and time consuming, may require large investments at the initial stage, but provide good results (and tangible monetary savings). Such events include:
- installation of metering units, flow meters: allows the identification of implicit losses and reduces costs by 20 to 30%;
- installation of small boiler rooms for the needs, far from the central highway, areas: eliminates heat loss during transport;
- introduction of a frequency control system for electric motors in ventilation, pumping systems, for other objects operating without a constant load;
- installation of starter relays for lamps and replacement of obsolete lamps with energy-saving lamps;
- obtain energy by transforming secondary raw materials directly into production (thus reducing its cost by almost 4 times);
- thermal insulation of the room;
- installation and launch of solar panels;
- use of organic fuel in boiler rooms.
Also, don't forget about the scheduled inspection and repair of all pipelines, cable networks and other parts of engineering systems, reducing losses. In addition, gas, water and electricity supply systems must be equipped with modern and highly sensitive regulators and meters. These are the activities that are actively implemented in modern enterprises.
If we are talking about the latest developments in energy saving, these include vortex type thermogenerators, heat exchangers in ventilation systems (with additional coolant or radiator type), solar panelsand solar collectors. Most of the advanced technology is too expensive for mass use. The only exceptions are LED lighting and the launch of rotating wind turbines.